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We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.

Alain de Botton

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The blunt large questions become connected to smaller, apparently esoteric ones.
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Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper.
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Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn’t find anyone to talk to.
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Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own – but that we could never have described on our own.
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability.
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Compensate Home Much Need Physical Psychological Vulnerability
Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.
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Better Everyone Few Life People Want
Curiosity takes ignorance seriously – and is confident enough to admit when it’s in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.
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Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.
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We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.
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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.
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It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
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A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain.
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